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1 Rupee - Taimur Shah
| Issuer | Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1790-1793 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a bold floral or foliate device rendered in the Durrani hammered style, surrounded by Persian calligraphic legends in Nastaliq script arranged in the outer margins. The strike is characteristic of hand-hammered coinage, resulting in a slightly irregular flan with softness at the periphery. The overall design is typical of Sadozai Durrani rupees issued under Taimur Shah. |
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| Mintage | 1204 (1790) - Ahmedshahi Mint - 1205 (1791) - Ahmedshahi Mint - 1206 (1792) - Ahmedshahi Mint - 1207 (1793) - Ahmedshahi Mint - |
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Taimur Shah ruled the Durrani Empire from 1772 until his death in 1793, relocating the capital from Kandahar to Kabul — a shift that restructured the empire's administrative and economic center. His reign saw the gradual fragmentation of the vast territories his father Ahmad Shah had consolidated, and the coinage reflects that instability: multiple mints were operating under varying degrees of central control, producing issues of inconsistent quality and weight adherence.
KM#124 is associated with the Kabul mint. Taimur's death in 1793 triggered an immediate succession crisis among his twenty-three sons, effectively ending coherent Durrani monetary policy for years afterward.